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Novus Law provides The New Certainty by finding the story in all types of legal matters better, faster and less expensively than is possible using traditional legal processes.

1. Finding Stories

Novus Law finds the story that is often buried deep in our clients’ and their opponents’ documents and other case-related materials. As we use The Novus Process to find the story, we prepare and deliver in real time the Novus Certified Organization of Relevant Evidence (the Novus CORE™). The Novus CORE™ includes a summary of the facts in the form of a succinct narrative, witness and key issue files, a key document library, privilege log, chronology of events, depositions and trial abstracts, with documents categorized by relevance, privilege and other subjective criteria, plus any other information that our clients and their law firms may need to pursue their legal strategy.

2. Better Stories Faster

Through the sophisticated combination of process management, machine learning, statistics, and decision analytics, Novus Law created the award-winning Novus Accelerate™, the killer early case assessment solution. Our lawyers use machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to target the identification and retrieval of key and hot documents. Statistics include a multiple-regression algorithm that uses years of data to forecast with statistically significant accuracy the number of key and hot documents that are in a body of evidence. The decision analytics tool uses the theory of prediction markets to provide our clients with a probabilistically weighted view of the various possible outcomes for their matter, allowing them to make strategic and financial decisions with unprecedented insight and speed.

3. Project and Program Management

Novus Law combines the professional management expertise of its business professionals with the subject matter expertise of its legal professionals to manage engagements and portfolios of engagements for our clients. Professional management includes defining a scope of work, budget, and schedule, as well as a risk management plan for all of the parties working on a matter. We then organize, direct and report on the performance of those parties relative to the plan. Legal project and program management has proven to make operating outcomes more predictable and matters more efficient and less expensive.

Where Novus Law Can Make Sense for You

Although our firm can be helpful on almost any type of legal matter, we are especially helpful to clients that have large or complex legal matters or a large portfolio of smaller legal matters.

Large Matters – Streamlining Operational Efficiency

Large matters have unique operating and logistical challenges created by their size. A large number of legal professionals working on a matter can significantly benefit from a structured work process like Novus One-Touch™. A common, open-access repository for case-related information like Novus C3™ ensures a consistent work product throughout. A meticulous quality-control program like Novus Q™ prevents ambiguities from negatively affecting quality. Large volumes of documents also create logistical challenges that require technology expertise and the type of rigorous process control provided by Novus One-Touch™ to reduce the risk associated with overlooked, lost or inadvertently produced documents.

Case Study

The high degree of structure and organization provided by the Novus Process™ made our completion of a recent qui tam matter with eight million pages of documents possible. We received 59 collections and made 19 productions of documents on a rolling basis to keep pace with depositions and court orders. In the process, we prepared 16 key issue files, 101 witness files, written summaries of 6,200 documents, and a privilege log with 4,800 documents, all on an accelerated schedule.

Complex Matters – Connecting the Dots

Complex matters have unique challenges created by the interdependency and opacity of facts that legal professionals need to find and link together to form a cohesive story. Sometimes the story is not apparent at the beginning of a matter and a structured process like Novus One-Touch™, which ensures that no stone remains unturned, is necessary. Other times, fact patterns are so disparate or complex that an assembly of the facts through a collaboration application like Novus C3™ is required. When legal professionals have to connect the dots in complex matters, a scientific quality control program like Novus Q™ ensures that every important document will find its way into the story.

Case Study

Without Novus C3™, it would have been virtually impossible for 60 lawyers on three continents to uncover the story of an $800 million financial fraud buried deep within three million pages of documents written in 17 languages, including everything from German to Vietnamese. While sifting through documents for both civil and criminal matters, the members of our team collaboratively exchanged information with one another more than 3,600 times to report what really happened and, in the process, created 572 witness and key issue files.

Case Portfolios – Leveraging Work Product and Specialized Knowledge

Case portfolios present unique challenges because while each matter has its own fact pattern, some may have similar facts, issues, characteristics or witnesses. A successful portfolio management strategy preserves the uniqueness of each matter while leveraging economies of scale and standard work product across the portfolio. This requires a strategy that uses Novus One-Touch™ and Novus Q™ to ensure a standardized work product across all matters, making it easier to use and repurpose work across matters. It also requires that each matter have a separate Novus C3™ to preserve its unique information and an enterprise-wide litigation management portal that combines all of the Novus C3™ applications. This enables our clients and their lawyers to find, leverage, or repurpose common facts, issues, and characteristics across the portfolio.

Case Study

As an integral litigation management partner to one enterprise client, we began work on a new matter for them on average every 17 days over several years. In doing so, we worked with 33 of our client’s law firms on a wide variety of class action, environmental, labor and employment, and insurance-related matters. In the process, we built an enterprise-wide litigation management portal for our client, and developed tailored work processes and automated workflows that achieved economies and efficiencies of scale only possible on an enterprise-wide level.

How Else Can We Be Of Service?

Not sure if Novus Law can help? Please let us know if you would like to discuss a specific matter or begin a conversation about managing your matters better in general.